Next week, Swan Valley Board of Education members will hire interim Superintendent Richard P. Dyer or David P. Moore as the leader of the 1,700-student school district.

They will announce their decision at a 6:30 p.m. special board meeting Tuesday in the media center of Swan Valley High School, 8400 O'Hern in Thomas Township.

In February, the board reduced a 23-person field of candidates to six, under the guidance of Port Huron-based Michigan Leadership Institute consultant William Kimball. The board hired Kimball to conduct the search and screen superintendent hopefuls. A couple of weeks later, they selected Dyer and Moore, assistant superintendent of Mount Morris Consolidated Schools in Genesee County, as finalists.

"They're two really good and qualified candidates for the position," Kimball told board members Tuesday.

Dyer, the system's curriculum director and an adjunct instructor at Saginaw Valley State University, has filled in for the past eight months. He succeeded Richard J. Syrek, superintendent of Swan Valley for 19 years. Syrek shifted to the Saginaw Intermediate School District's superintendent post in July 2007.

Board members want the district's permanent leader on board by July 1, in time for the start of the school year.